WILMINGTON, Del., May 13, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Lucille Tessier Chagnon draws on her years of teaching experience to energize people in the effort to wipe out illiteracy. Her informative new book, You, Yes YOU, Can Teach Someone to Read: A Step by Step How-To Book (now available through AuthorHouse), offers innovative strategies that boost learning potential in children and adults.
Packed with exciting new methods, You, Yes YOU presents simple techniques that help both the neophyte tutor and the seasoned instructor teach more effectively. Parents, friends, volunteers or anyone looking to boost their organization's volunteer base will gain significant knowledge from this teaching guide.
After a motivating overview, Chagnon dives into practical suggestions. She specifically outlines what to do with students at the first, second and subsequent tutoring sessions and how to truly listen to students. She gives excellent advice about how to teach phonics without interrupting the flow of a story and how carefully selected capital letters can eliminate common problems with letter reversals. Graphic organizers and a planning checklist that serves as a comprehensive reporting form are included for instructors to copy and use in their sessions.
Chagnon takes the traditional method of teaching reading to a new level; she describes the benefits of having students who have been studying the language show brand new readers what they have learned. "We learn best what we teach," she writes, and by having students help their tutor instruct others, a triad is formed that brings success.
A powerful and engaging book for people who help others embrace the printed word without fear, You, Yes YOU, Can Teach Someone to Read supports tutors as they guide students toward literacy.
A veteran teacher of new readers and fellow tutors, Chagnon holds a master's degree in education from Boston College. During her 10 years as a developmental learning specialist with underprepared college students at Rutgers University in Camden, N.J., she taught an urban literary practicum and directed the urban literacy program, through which hundreds of tutors taught new readers. She has taught countless people how to teach reading, including special education teachers, parents, educators and inmates in prisons and juvenile institutions and members of the AmeriCorps program. Chagnon has also produced Easy Reader, Learner, Writer: Six Videotapes and a Teacher's Guide (American Guidance Service) and Voice Hidden, Voice Heard: A Reading and Writing Anthology (Kendall/Hunt).
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